427
Kaspars Groševs
Description of the presented project:
Ieva Kraule-Kūna (b. 1987, Riga) has MA in Fine Arts from Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. She mostly produces sculptural objects using various materials (ceramics, stone, metal, etc.), accompanying them with short stories, where absurd adventures of fictive characters alternate with cockeyed interpretations of historical facts. In her works, Ieva Kraule-Kūna references fetishism, history, artisanship and aesthetics of the Soviet era while tracing the origins of both personal and collective aesthetic codes. Her most significant solo and duo exhibitions include: “Where My Cards Lay” (2021, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga), “Artist Crisis Center II – Tact Gear” together with Elīna Vītola (2020, P/////AKT, Amsterdam), “Hot Babas” (2019, Latvian National Museum of Art exhibition hall Arsenāls Radošā Darbnīca, Riga), “α: Deceived Deceivers” (2017, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga), “The person you are trying to reach is not available together” with Aidan Koch (2016, Hester, New York), “Qu’est-ce que ça peut faire tout ça together” with Kaspars Groševs (2015, Shanaynay, Paris), “Nobody Dances Like That Anymore” (2014, Gallery 427, Riga), “…if all you told was turned to gold” (2014, Vita Kuben gallery, Umeå), “11 out of 10” (2013, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga). Most significant group exhibitions: Paris Internationale(2015, Paris), XII Baltic Triennial (2015, CAC, Vilnius), “Le fragole del Baltico” (2015, CareOf, Milan), “Lily’s Pool” (2015, Art In General, New York). She is also the recipient of the Kim? Residency Award 2017 and, in 2017, spent three months at the Gasworks residency in London. She is a finalist of the Purvītis Prize 2021. She is a co-founder of Gallery 427 in Riga and co-curated its program from 2014 to 2016, and co-headed LOW gallery from 2020 to 2022.
Viktor Timofeev (b. 1984, Riga) is an artist based in New York. Timofeev’s multidisciplinary practice is informed by personal experiences, speculative imaginings and everything in between. Working across video, painting, software, installation and sound, Timofeev combines these mediums to create semi-fictional environments. He received his MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and his BFA at Hunter College in New York. He hosts monthly events that include screenings, performances and sensory deprivation listening sessions at No Moon, an event space in Brooklyn he co-founded in 2018.
Recent solo exhibitions include Pedagogical Games 1: Agents and Boundaries at 427 Gallery in Riga (2024), DOG at Interstate Projects in New York (2021), God Objects at Karlin Studios / Futura in Prague (2020), God Room at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York (2018) and Stairway to Melon at Kim? Contemporary Art Center in Riga (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Tallinn Photomonth in Tallinn (2023), Digital Intimacy at the National Gallery Prague in Prague (2021), the 14th Baltic Triennial at Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius (2021), Unexpected Encounters at the Latvian National Museum.
Kaspars Groševs (b. 1983, Riga) is an artist and curator based in Riga. In 2014 he co-found 427 gallery – an open and experimental art space interested in connecting communities, daring ideas, confabulations and adventurous art practices. He has exhibited at Cēsis Contemporary Art Centre, the National Art Museum in Riga, Editorial and CAC in Vilnius, darkZone in New Jersey, Harkawik Gallery, No Moon and Art in General in New York, Futura in Prague, BOZAR in Brussels, Shanaynay in Paris, SIC in Helsinki, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga. Groševs has curated a variety of exhibitions at the City Surfer Office in Prague (2022), Skulptur Institut in Vienna (2022), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga (2020, 2019, 2015), P/////AKT in Amsterdam (2020), Polansky Gallery in Brno (2019), as well as several off-spaces in Riga. Groševs has been experimenting with music since the late ’90s, currently publishing music under the alias Figūras as well as DJ-ing with cassettes, he’s irregularly appeared on radio NABA since 2003. He co-runs cassette label No Sex Just Talk since 2017. Two-time finalist of the Purvītis Award (2021, 2023).
Description of the institution:
427 was opened in 2014 by artists Kaspars Groševs and Ieva Kraule-Kūna (2014-2016), later joined by Marta Trektere (2016-). Its aim has been to frequently host a variety of contemporary art practices in Riga, to uncover signs, to cast nets, and to exchange with confabulations. In 2021 “427 YEARS BOOK” was published to look back at the first seven years of the gallery. As of October 2024 427 has hosted more 70 exhibitions of the program, not to mention numberless concerts, parties, screenings, sound pieces, mixtapes, lectures and other things as short intermissions between exhibitions.
Kaspars Groševs, SPECTIVE MIXTAPE
Limited edition recycled cassette release, self published
7x11x1,5 cm
2024
Kaspars Groševs, Evita
Painting
Oil, acrylic on canvas
24x33 cm
2024
Kaspars Groševs, Casper
Painting
Oil, acrylic on canvas,
24x33 cm
2024
Kaspars Groševs, Mycelium
Painting
Oil, acrylic on canvas
60x40 cm
2024
Ieva Kraule-Kūna, Mrs Pattison's Patch
Urethane resin, Pigment, Sand, Wood
38x50x8 cm
2024
Ieva Kraule-Kūna, 58-year old Puppies
Acrylic resin Pigment Acrylic paint Sand Urethane resin
39x45x15,2 cm
2024
Ieva Kraule-Kūna, Puppies
PLA 3D print, Spray paint, Acrylic resin, Pigment, Acrylic paint
211x229x152 cm
2024
Viktor Timofeev, August 30
Drawing or other work on paper
Graphite on paper
56x38 cm
2024
Viktor Timofeev,
Drawing or other work on paper
Graphite on paper
28x38 cm
2024
Viktor Timofeev, July 17
Drawing or other work on paper
Graphite on paper
21x28 cm
2024